Hey, everyone. First off, thanks OCT for being great friends to COMC over the years, and thanks Graham for giving us the "OK" to post this. We’ve launched something called the COMC Challenge and we’re running a series of contests to help encourage everyone to get involved. We need more people in the community participating. Our goal is to get as much as possible done before April 1st.
1st contest: The top ten Challenge points-earners each week (Sunday-Saturday) for the next two weeks will each receive $100 COMC Store Credit. Each week we’ll reset the scoreboard so even late-comers will have a fair shot.
2nd contest: Every 5,000 points you earn in total before April 1st gets you one entry into a drawing to win COMC Store Credit prizes up to $1,000.
Why the Challenge: We posted a video outlining a very general view of our vision which is to team up with the community to make our new catalog. Generally speaking there is so much potential data that one could have on a card or set of cards that it isn’t feasible for any one company to attempt to build a truly comprehensive database for everything. We aren’t trying to do it all by ourselves, though. We’re teaming up with the crowd because we believe that if everyone contributes a little it becomes possible to make something amazing. Our current Challenges are just the beginning. We’ve had requests for college, draft round, HOF status, on-card auto vs. sticker auto, multi-color patch… it is all possible through the structure we’re building.
Updates: We’ve started adding Team Challenges, beginning with Basketball and we’ve just added Hockey. The more basic data we acquire the faster we can move on to deeper data and the faster we can roll out sorting and pricing features. Again, our goal is to get as much as possible added before April 1st.
Please check out the Challenge, try it out, and if you have any feedback or suggestions let us know. We are also asking anyone who supports this effort to help us spread the word by sharing links to our blog post (or this post), or by telling friends in the hobby about the Challenges and how they are helping us to build the best database out there - basically, any way that gets the word out to other collectors that we're building something that we all stand to benefit from, and we need some help in the next three weeks to do it. This is a joint effort with the community and we are excited to hear what people have to say.
Thanks,
Jeremy
COMC
1st contest: The top ten Challenge points-earners each week (Sunday-Saturday) for the next two weeks will each receive $100 COMC Store Credit. Each week we’ll reset the scoreboard so even late-comers will have a fair shot.
2nd contest: Every 5,000 points you earn in total before April 1st gets you one entry into a drawing to win COMC Store Credit prizes up to $1,000.
Why the Challenge: We posted a video outlining a very general view of our vision which is to team up with the community to make our new catalog. Generally speaking there is so much potential data that one could have on a card or set of cards that it isn’t feasible for any one company to attempt to build a truly comprehensive database for everything. We aren’t trying to do it all by ourselves, though. We’re teaming up with the crowd because we believe that if everyone contributes a little it becomes possible to make something amazing. Our current Challenges are just the beginning. We’ve had requests for college, draft round, HOF status, on-card auto vs. sticker auto, multi-color patch… it is all possible through the structure we’re building.
Updates: We’ve started adding Team Challenges, beginning with Basketball and we’ve just added Hockey. The more basic data we acquire the faster we can move on to deeper data and the faster we can roll out sorting and pricing features. Again, our goal is to get as much as possible added before April 1st.
Please check out the Challenge, try it out, and if you have any feedback or suggestions let us know. We are also asking anyone who supports this effort to help us spread the word by sharing links to our blog post (or this post), or by telling friends in the hobby about the Challenges and how they are helping us to build the best database out there - basically, any way that gets the word out to other collectors that we're building something that we all stand to benefit from, and we need some help in the next three weeks to do it. This is a joint effort with the community and we are excited to hear what people have to say.
Thanks,
Jeremy
COMC
